Reproach Quotes

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach. View quote
Aleister Crowley
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best. View quote
Anatole France
Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition. View quote
Eliza Farnham
The hearts of the rich are hardened. The existence of the poor is a reproach to them. View quote
Murray Leinster
I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity. View quote
Robert E. Lee
Thinking which displaces, or otherwise defines, the sacred has been called atheistic, and that philosophy which does not place it here or there, like a thing, but at the joining of things and words, will always be exposed to this reproach without ever being touched by it. View quote
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. "Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette," she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself. View quote
Barbara Ehrenreich
Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you. View quote
Pittacus of Mytilene
I've lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing Proofs I see of this Truth - That God governs in the Affairs of Men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his Notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise without his Aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that except the Lord build the House they labor in vain who build it. I firmly believe this, - and I also believe that without his concurring Aid, we shall succeed in this political Building no better than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our Projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a Reproach and Bye word down to future Ages. (Benjamin Franklin)
A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security. View quote
Thucydides
Just Discourse: Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age. View quote
Aristophanes
My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me never to delight in praise or to be distressed by reproach. Before my Soul taught me, I doubted the value of my accomplishments until the passing days sent someone who would extol or disparage them. But now I know that trees blossom in the spring and give their fruits in the summer without any desire for accolades. And they scatter their leaves abroad in the fall and denude themselves in the winter without fear of reproof. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
There are in life such confluences of circumstances that render the reproach that we are not Voltaires most inopportune. View quote
Anton Chekhov
If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be. View quote
Joan of Arc
Your American admiral said that he held me in the highest esteem, and thought that I conducted my defense perfectly. He said through his chief of staff that my conduct was beyond reproach and he had the greatest admiration for me. View quote
Karl Dönitz
Randall laid his hand on Stella's, but only to remove it from his sleeve. "My precious, you really must have some regard for my clothes," he said with gentle reproach. "Much as I love you, I cannot permit you to maul this particular coat. View quote
Georgette Heyer
Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization. View quote
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics. (Eric Temple Bell)
Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself. View quote
Elias Hicks
My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach. View quote
Kojo Annan
I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of. View quote
Kate Smith
Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it. View quote
William Laud